Johann Rottenheiser, a farmer, his wife Anna, children (Johann, age 12; Anna, age 7; Franz, age 1½), and his mother Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 11 June 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Der Jäger under the command of Skipper Gabriel Will.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Lauwe but have not been located on the 1767 census there.
Son Johann Heinrich Rottenheiser is recorded on the 1798 census in Lauwe in Household No. Lw17.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Rottenheiser came from the German region of Darmstadt.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Lw17.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2140.
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